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Welcome to Snow Leopard!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Last week, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released! Snow Leopard represents a lot of hard work by a lot of folks at Apple and at seeded third-party developers, and it really shows. Now that it’s shipped, I can actually talk about some of the especially cool things this release has for developers.

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Using “en” instead of “English” for your Xcode project’s development region

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Various pieces of Mac OS X and iPhone documentation have said for quite a while that the “preferred” method is now to use ISO-639-1 (two-letter) or ISO-639-2 (three-letter) language codes codes for localization purposes. Out of the box, Xcode’s project templates still use “English” rather than “en” as their default localization. How can you use […]

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Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Use Check Methods

Sunday, July 5, 2009

In the past, I’ve talked about ways to easily write unit tests for Cocoa applications, including [tests for user interfaces using target-action][1] and [tests for interfaces using Cocoa bindings][2]. There are some strategies you can apply to make writing tests for Cocoa code even easier, though. They’re just straightforward object-oriented programming, but sometimes we can […]

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Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Cocoa Bindings

Saturday, July 7, 2007

About a year ago, I wrote about unit testing target-action connections for Cocoa user interfaces. That covers the traditional mechanism by which user interfaces have typically been constructed in Cocoa since the NeXTstep days. However, with the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther we’ve had a newer interface technology available — Cocoa bindings — […]

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Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Target-Action

Monday, July 3, 2006

It’s really great to see that a lot of people are adopting unit testing for their projects and dramatically improving their quality. Test-driven development and agile development methodologies built around it are really taking off. However, a lot of people still feel that their user interface is difficult to test through code, and either requires […]

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“Enterprise” thought leadership?

Sunday, March 19, 2006

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails at 37signals, takes James McGovern — some Java/J2EE author — to task for his über-lame rant against Ruby in the Enterprise in a great post titled Boy, is James McGovern enterprise or what! > So by Enterprise, Architect, and Enterprise Architect standards, this gent must be the top of the […]

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Core Data: Generating an interface for an entity

Saturday, April 30, 2005

The new Core Data framework and Xcode 2 modeling tools in Tiger are an extremely powerful way to develop great end-user applications quickly. You can even easily generate a human interface for your application that will let you work with its data model with little to no code. To generate an interface, create an empty […]

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